Editorial writers and opinion columnists across the country have decried tort reform as a travesty of justice. 

Here are a few of their pieces:

"Lawyers Bad, Until You Need One" - By Clifford Rieders, Esq., former president of the Pa. Trial Lawyers Assn., The Sunday Times, Scranton, Pa., November 21, 2004
"Exploiting 'Fear Itself' - The Medical Lobby's Challenge to Patients' Rights" - By Michael J. Foley, Esq.

"The Lincoln Institute and other fairy tales" - By Clifford Rieders, Esq., former president of the Pa. Trial Lawyers Assn., Williamsport Sun-Gazette, February 22, 2004
"Medical crisis wrongly pits doctors against lawyers" - Op-Ed by Todd J. O'Malley, Esq., The Citizens' Voice, Feb. 4, 2003.
"Medical Crisis Mandates Insurance Reform" - Op-ed by state Senate Democratic Leader Robert J. Mellow, Scranton Times, Nov. 10, 2002
"Turning Patients Into Hostages" - The Los Angeles Times, Jan. 6, 2003
"The Malpractice Crisis" - by Ralph Nader, CounterPunch, January 7, 2003
"A pretty clear case of presidential malpractice" - Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., January 19, 2003
"President's prescription weak medicine at best" - Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., January 21, 2003
"An Effort To Deceive on Hospital 'Reform'" - The Boston Globe, Jan 21, 2003
"Doctors Have Put a Cap on the Truth" - Newark Star-Ledger Editorial, February 18, 2003
"Caps not answer" - Orlando Sentinel, February 27, 2003
"A Second Opinion on the Malpractice Plague" - Business Week, March 3, 2003
"The Bogus Tort-Reform Case" - Wall Street Journal, March 6, 2003